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Sorbonical
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English
Etymology
From en Sorbonne ical.
Adjective
Belonging or relating to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist.
en 1587 w:Raphael Holinshed; et al Holinshed's Chronicles Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande 2 A generall catalog of the writers of Scotland, with the times in which they liued, as well of the yeare of Christ, as of the reigne of Scotish kings 463 http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68198.0001.001 Iohn Langeie a Scot borne, following his studie in Paris became a Sorbonicall doctor, who liuing in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred thrée score and ten, did write a booke of the life, doctrine, and death of Martin Luther and Iohn Caluin
1607, Richard Carew (translator), A World of Wonders (Apologia pro Herodoto) by Henri Estienne, Chapter 39, p. 341,
This question (to say the truth) is more then Sorbonicall: for many of no greater moment haue bene debated in Councels.
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